Professional Aviation Photographer Based In Dayton Ohio

Pittsburgh International Airport In May 2025, I visited the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to attend a Pearl Jam concert. When I go places, I try to build in some extra time to do other things instead of just the one thing that I’m there for. On that day, I visited the Pittsburgh International Airport outside […]

As a professional aviation photographer, I have photographed hundreds of aircraft, dozens of types, and numerous airports. In 2026, I added a career highlight to my #avgeek resume. Professional Pilot Magazine hired me to shoot the cover and story. This would be my second magazine cover with my first being University or Dayton magazine. I […]

I Say Yes To Everything Photography-Related I am Kevin Lush, owner of Kevin Lush Photography in Dayton, Ohio, the birthplace of aviation. This month’s photography topic is “say yes to everything.”  I wrote the following article for a professional plane spotting group I belong to in Chicago, Illinois. When I first started as a professional […]

Photographing High Speed Jets And Low Speed Prop Planes I am lucky to live 5 minutes away from the Dayton International Airport, home to the Dayton Air Show. Every June or July, 70,000 people descend on Vandalia, Ohio at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 75. Also, every year, I tell myself I am […]

Choose Your Location Wisely Location choice is a critical but fun part of plane spotting. When determining where I am going to plane spot in a city, I start by using spotterguide.net to research the known areas. The site seems to be fairly up to date, but I always double check Google Maps to be […]

Getting Access To The Chicago Aviation Department (CAD) Tower Plane spotting Chicago O’Hare From A Control Tower control tower with the ORD O’Hare Airport Watch group in the summer feels like stepping into a dream I’ve had since I was a kid. In the fourth grade Weeblo’s Cub Scouts, we toured the control tower at […]

How To Make Your Plane Spotting Better Plane spotting with still photography is great, but plane spotting with video is even more thrilling. Capturing the sound and movement that you felt at that very moment is exhilarating. Fortunately or unfortunately, social media demands video over still photos. To give you a head start on capturing […]

Hired Again To Photograph A Falcon 900 At CVG In 2025, a business jet client hired me to photograph their aircraft. This was the fourth time I have been hired to photograph an executive jet.” A jet leasing agency had a Falcon 900 jet at CVG Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The friendly lady who hired […]

Jet For Sale At Signature Aviation LUK For the third time in 2025, I was hired to photograph a business jet at Lunken Airfield in Cincinnati, Ohio. This Learjet 45, N356LP, was also located at Signature Aviation, the same FBO as the Cessna 525 earlier in the year. As an aviation photographer, I was so […]

Photographing Jets For Sale One of the 2025 commercial photography jobs I did was photographing a Cessna 525 business jet, N507HP. This was located at Lunken Airfield in Cincinnati, Ohio. This particular jet was stored at Signature Aviation FBO but was being sold by a jet broker / aircraft broker based out of state. As […]